Yes, after few hours our 2 contries will become members of the European Union. I would like to send a European greeting to Lucian and Andrei and to all bulgarian and romanian bloggers.

Bine ati venit Europa !
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria established diplomatic relations with the EU in 1988. In 1993, the European Association Agreements signed and it entered into force in 1995.

In December 1995 Bulgaria submitted its application for EU membership in December 1995. The Commission presented its first Regular Report on Bulgaria’s progress towards accession in November 1998. The second report, released in 1999, recommended that formal negotiations are opened.

Accession negotiations between Bulgaria and the EU started on 15 February 2000. Sofia …

What this project aims at is to stimulate the implementation/adoption of free software, open source software and open standards in the Bulgarian Government Administration (BGA) and other sectors of management, in the economics and at home.

There will be a reading of the EU requirements and a review on which of the open standards are suitable for the current status of the BGA. The project has the objective to prepare the migration from present-day to open source EU recommended technologies. We will create a special guide that will focus on how to migrate, how to make this process easier and how to create the prerequisites for doing so.
We will review all of the available OS and software possibility, covered by this project that can be used in the BGA and other sectors.

We need supporters and fresh ideas. Please let me know if you are able to help us with your experience, knowledge or by other way.

MySQL meetings
The first MySQL UG meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria is in history now. You can see some very interesting pictures by clicking here

Slides

The slides about MySQL Falcon(JSTAR) are available here (*.odp in bulgarian)

OpenSource
Let’s spread the world about Balkan’s initiatives about open source and/or Free Software. Yeah, that’s my job ;)) I already wrote couple of times about OpenFest in Bulgaria. Now it’s time for Romania.

Romanian Open Source and Free Software Initiative (ROSI) is growing up faster and faster every day. That is extremely …

Today I found a bug in MySQL administrator. When I tried to create a new table, there is no information about the names of storage engines :

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MySQL version: 5.1.12-beta-nightly-20060718-log
MySQL Administrator: 1.1.10
OS: Linux Fedora Core 5
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The other think I found is the declaration of a new storage engine I think this is ‘early Falcon’

CREATE TABLE `tester`.`testFalcon` (
`id` TINYINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` CHAR NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY(`id`)
)
ENGINE = JSTAR;


...
{"Falcon", "jstar", MYX_DBM_TE_FALCON,
"Transactional engine for modern scale-out applications.\n"
"Supports MVCC (multiversion concurrency control)."},
Copyright (C) 2004 MySQL AB
....


Logs “on demand”

By default this query returns: …

Meetings

Finally, Bulgarian MySQL user group is alive. Thanks to MySQL AB we are in the meetup.com site. Our website will be ready within 2 weeks. Our fist UG meeting will be at Aug 7 in Sofia. Everyone are invited to join the group and meeting.

Just a reminder, the Danish UG will have a meting tomorrow at 19.00 in Copenhagen.

Community

I am starting a white paper on communities and relation between technologies and communities. One of the chapters will be ‘Why the MySQL community is so strong’ and i will be very happy to know your opinion. I know that answer, do you?